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The Huntington Museum of Art is running an exhibit on comic art that started on June 27th and will run through October 11 called The Herald-Dispatch Presents WHAAM!: Original Comic Drawings from the collection.

The exhibit features original comic book art, comic strips, and sequential drawings from the Huntington Museum of Art’s Michael Reynolds Collection of American Popular Culture. There will be work from Bob Kane, Ernie Chan, Neal Adams, and many other noted comic artists from the 40’s to recent pieces covering superheroes, fantasy, comedy, and more. The exhibit is dedicated to the memory of Alfred Lee Reynolds.

The opening reception is this Tuesday July 28th at 7pm. Comic writer, blogger, and WV native Beau Smith will be speaking on how comics are created and their history. He will lead a tour of some of the pieces while he talks. Feel free to come in costume of your favorite hero or villain. The lecture will take about forty minutes to an hour. Refreshments will be available.

This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.

A native of Ceredo and a Marshall University graduate, Beau Smith’s first work was a series of backup stories for a book called “Scout” published be Eclipse comics. In the 1990s he attained national prominence working for DC Comics where he wrote “Guy Gardner: Warrior” a spin-off of the “Green Lantern” series. Smith later attained a lot of work behind the scenes at various companies. He served as the Vice President of Marketing for Image Comics and later IDW. Recently his Western/Supernatural hybrid book “Wynonna Earp” has been given the go ahead to be turned into a TV series for the SyFy channel.

Fathom Events has a lot of movies and events coming up in the next few months. Here is a listing of some to take a look at. You will have to check for what theaters near yourself who might be doing any showings.

On Thursday July 16th at 7:30pm RiffTrax presents the re-broadcast of their live riffing of Sharknado 2: The Second One. Another chance to see this bizarre shark weather movie get the skewing it deserves.

The top two Dota teams compete for the largest cash prize in eSports history ($15 million) at Seattle’s KeyArena.

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Sunday September 20th at 2pm and 7pm watch Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological thriller Psycho shown in its originally aspect ratio presented by TCM. Repeat on Wednesday September 23rd at 2pm and 7pm.

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Wednesday September 30th at 7pm show up for The Iron Giant: Signature Edition, a re-mastered and enhanced movie with two all-new scenes. Encore presentation on Sunday October 4th at noon.

The Annie Award winner is described as E.T. with a giant robot stars Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr, and Vin Diesel as the giant robot.

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RifTrax returns Thursday October 1st at 8pm, and Tuesday October 6th at 7:30pm, with Miami Connection. A movie so 80s no human words can describe it. Though it does feature motorcycle-riding ninjas versus a rock band.

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And finally for this update, a double showing of Dracula on Sunday October 25 at 2pm and 7pm and Wednesday October 28th at 2pm and 7pm presented by TCM. Watch the classic 1931 vampire film Dracula with Bela Lugosi and then watch the Spanish version shot at the same time at night with a different cast.

They will be having a Nerdy Book Exchange, costume contest hosted by Flabbergast the Wizard with three age categories for both male and female, a silent art auction, magic show by Flabbergast, paranormal investigation round table, sumobot competition, brony and pegasister meetup, and Paranormal Party live recording. Panels on Jack Kirby, strange history, comic creation, steampunk on a budget, the 501st and USS Angstrom. Workshops on writing and publishing, latex application and sculpting, filk writing, and Nerf Modding. There will also be a charity raffle and the 501st Legion will be doing a fundraiser of their own for the Wytheville Community College Scholarship Foundation,